We think that you are wimps, with the brains the size chimps, So we will increase your bills, using our mad computer skills, Cos hive’s about running your heating when you are not home! Like lambs unto the slaughter, we’llContinue reading →

As a long-term Linux user who still likes to try different distributions and operating systems, I have what I called a “playputer”. That is a computer set aside for installing and trying out different operating systems on. It is aContinue reading →

In this part of my Convert-O-Matic tutorial which was started here. In this part I am going to re-factor the code and add some additional features to the program. This tutorial will focus on the main program. The feature setContinue reading →

Recently I decided to consolidate several of my websites, which I had been ignoring in to one easy to ignore website. The first step was to add the content from the soon to be defunct web sites to this oneContinue reading →

Current conditions Weatherbot exposes the following information about the current weather conditions. conditions[‘weather_icon’] An icon that represents the current weather conditions. conditions[‘weather_font’] Conky weather font’s equivalent to the weather icon. conditions[‘text’] Textual description of the current conditions. conditions[‘text_short’] Abbreviated versionContinue reading →

Three hour forecast Weatherbot exposes the following variables for the three hour forecast. hours[i][‘time’] The hour that this data is for. hours[i][‘description’] The textual description of the conditions in the time slot. hours[i][‘weather_icon’] An icon representing the conditions forecast forContinue reading →

Prerequisites Install Conky, xdotool, curl and xwininfo using your distribution’s package manager. For example: In openSUSE you would run the following command as root: 1 zypper install conky xwininfo xdotool curl In Debian or Ubuntu you would run the followingContinue reading →

Introduction This is a simple Python ttk tutorial which will introduce some of the basic features of ttk in Python 3. It is based on the first real example from the tutorial on tkdocs.com. This version has been wrapped upContinue reading →